I think the board logs you out after a certain time. If you've been on for two hours plus, it logs you out. Used to happend to me all the time. Or sometimes when my computer hung or I couldn't come on for some reason or other, a few hours later, I'd check and its logged out. Anyway, I never checked that box before. LOL hope that made sense.

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Re:Logging Out« Reply #8 on: February 06, 2006, 09:21:30 pm »

When I log on, I change the default 240 to 9999.....and check the box, because I'm always logged on for much longer at a time than 240 minutes. I know changing it to 9999 works since I've been logged in for as many as eight hours and I never get logged out.

Don't you hate it when you type up a long post, and then hit the button and you get logged out! That's happened to me too much.

I have no idea why, but Morgan's A+F remembers his username, so when he goes to the login page "MrFishPillow" is already there. Anyone know how I can get mine to do that? I have to type it in everytime.

If you tick "always stay logged in", the browser saves a cookie with your information. (It does work - I've tested it) You need not log out again and whenever you come to the site you're logged in automatically. The problem is when your browser is set to delete all cookies upon closing (my Firefox does that, my IE doesn't).

But with the login page... hmmm... so that you only have to type the password? I don't know. You could ask Morgan about the browser and the settings.

*weird...have I typed this before somewhere? I'm having a deja-vu right now *

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Re:Logging Out« Reply #11 on: February 07, 2006, 01:44:22 pm »

I have to type in my log on name and password every time, but I do that intentionally.

When I shut down my computer for the day, I delete cookies, temporary files and history. My husband (who works in computer security) keeps after me to do that because he says a lot of viruses sneak into your computer, hide in temporary files and don't become active until you turn the computer on the next time. Hopefully, what I do doesn't give them a chance to activate.

But who knows. He tends to be an alarmist, so I may be just wasting my time.